Polar ice sheets melting - in pictures

Polar ice sheets melting - in pictures

Ice sheets covering Greenland and Antarctica are melting three times faster today than they were in the 1990s, according to a 'definitive' study of satellite data. These pictures show the different ways that melting occurs

A large melt lake, around 0.75 miles in diameter, that is just one of the many supraglacial lakes (liquid water on the top of a glacier) that form on the ice sheet's surface during the period of strong summer melt